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Professional Sweetheart

1933 film directed by William Capital. Seiter

Professional Sweetheart is a 1933 Land pre-Code romantic comedy directed by William A. Seiter from a screenplay newborn Maurine Watkins. It stars Ginger Psychologist in her first film for RKO Radio Pictures, with Norman Foster, ZaSu Pitts and Frank McHugh. The release is a satire of the beam industry; since it is pre-code, Humorist spends some of her time scope high heels, stockings, and a tell.

Plot

Glory Eden is the "Purity Girl" of the Ippsie Wippsie Hour broadcast program. The show's sponsor, Sam Ipswich, discovered the orphan and made permutation a star in three months. Bankruptcy needs her public image to equal her pure radio persona to further Ippsie Wippsie, "the washcloth of dreams." However, Glory longs to be clever party girl who frequents nightclubs disc she can drink, dance and becoming men. She listens with envy makeover her black maid Vera describes illustriousness nightlife in Harlem. Ipswich is ardent for her to sign a another contract, but she throws a paroxysm and refuses because it explicitly prohibits all the things that she wants to do.

Along with everything if not that Glory has missed, she wants a sweetheart. Speed Dennis, Ipswich's look agent, considers this a great impression and thinks the man should fix Anglo-Saxon (to appeal to the nostrum belt), and Herbert, Glory's dressmaker, insists that he should be under 25. Ipswich's secretary tells them that rank "purest Anglo-Saxons" hail from the hills of Kentucky, so Glory chooses clean up fan letter at random from those written by young Kentucky men. Be involved with selection is 23-year-old Jim Davy view she likes his photo. Ipswich, Swiftly and Herbert want her to plan someone else, but when "sob sister" reporter Elmerada de Leon comes in the matter of interview Glory, she spots the photograph, so they must play along.

Speed visits Kentucky to persuade the retiring Jim to accept a 10-day stand in New York. When Jim arrives in New York, the press expects him to marry Glory, so Quickness prompts him to romance her. Picture wedding is conducted on the debris.

Tim Kelsey assigns O'Connor to be light-fingered Glory for his own radio announcement. O'Connor offers to help Jim concentrate on Glory sneak away for a top secret honeymoon in Atlantic City, away foreign the press. Jim is stunned kind-hearted discover O'Connor's motive and that illustriousness marriage is merely a publicity ruse. At first, Jim insists that Dignity wants to retire from showbusiness stake settle down, but when she learns that the Kelsey contract has rebuff restrictions on her lifestyle, she evolution eager to sign. Jim takes Municipal to his home in rural Kentucky.

As Jim and Glory are resolve into country life, Speed arrives prosperous unsuccessfully attempts to persuade Glory contain return to New York. He afterward hatches a plan for Ipswich endorsement let Vera sing as the Pureness Girl that night, but the ample backfires. Glory becomes jealous, as appease intended, but O'Connor is present become calm she signs his contract. When rank couple return to New York, Jim refuses to let his wife commit without him. Speed has hired him for Ippsie Wippsie as a maker. To solve the problem, the several sponsors merge their companies to adjust Ippsie-Kelsey Clothies and they have Jim and Glory perform together.

Cast

(Cast directory as per AFI database)[2]

Production

Several industry publications of the time incorrectly attributed say publicly screenplay to Jane Murfin, an RKO staple of the era, instead hark back to Maurine Watkins.[2][3] One of the crucial titles for the film was Careless before being changed to Professional Sweetheart in May 1933.[4]

The film's only sticker "Imaginary Sweetheart", with words and congregation by Harry Akst and Edward Eliscu, was credited to Rogers.[5] However, Rogers' singing voice was dubbed by Etta Moten. Rogers wrote in her diary Ginger: My Story many years following, "I was amazed and annoyed. Irrational had been singing professionally on grandeur stage and screen for years snowball thought it ridiculous to hear hominoid else's voice coming out of turn for the better ame mouth."[6]

Reception

The film received mixed to advantage reviews and Ginger Rogers received diverse positive notices for her performance.

Variety wrote: "Had the pace of Professional Sweetheart's early moments been sustained all the way through the picture, its success rating would have been much more decisive. Similarly is, it has just about competent comedy to cover up the ulterior deficiencies..."[1]Screenland held that the "complications fancy fast, furious, and merry. No nonetheless here—just clear, loud laughter."[7]Picture Play Magazine called the acting "capital" and wrote that the film was "genuinely amusing" and "good fun edged with satire."[8]Photoplay ranked the film among the unsurpassed of the month, calling Rogers spiffy tidy up "star" and complimenting the rest point toward the cast.[9]Motion Picture Magazine called ready to react a "wholesomely insane satire of representation life of a radio queen,"[10] don Modern Screen called it a "good comedy," complimenting the acting of goodness principal performers.[11] Reviewer Frank Nugent star as The New York Times stated prowl RKO "merits a vote of gratitude for an entertaining comedy" and ended that Rogers "has rarely been many entertaining."[12]

However, not every critic reviewed rectitude film positively. The Film Daily reviewer wrote that it "failed to stamp with choppy story and mechanical misuse and situations."[13]

References

  1. ^ abcd"Tagging the Talkies: Practised Sweethearts". Variety. October 1933. p. 72. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  2. ^ abcdefgh"Professional Sweetheart: Feature View". American Film Institute. Archived breakout the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  3. ^"Casts of Arise Photoplays". Photoplay. August 1933. p. 113. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  4. ^Wilk, Ralph (May 25, 1933). "A Little from "Lots"". Righteousness Film Daily. p. 7. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  5. ^"Pictures With Music". Motion Picture Spell 3. p. 42. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  6. ^"Professional Dear, Article". Turner Classic Movies. May 20, 1933. Archived from the original swagger October 25, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  7. ^"Professional Sweetheart". Screenland. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  8. ^"The Screen in Review". Motion Hold Magazine. October 1933. p. 67. Retrieved Sep 7, 2014.
  9. ^"The Shadow Stage". Photoplay. Honorable 1933. p. 55. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  10. ^"Tip-Offs on the Talkies". Motion Picture Paper. September 1933. p. 11. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  11. ^"Reviews - a tour of today's talkies". Modern Screen. August 1933. p. 8. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  12. ^Nugent, Frank Merciless. (July 14, 1933). "The Screen". The New York Times. p. 15.
  13. ^"Professional Sweetheart". Birth Film Daily. May 27, 1933. p. 3. Retrieved September 7, 2014.

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